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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned storefronts belie its View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother launch a family-run investment... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
When HBS professor Leonard A. Schlesinger and the other architects of the new MBA introductory "Foundations" curriculum decided that a thorough understanding of capitalism's underpinnings was essential, they asked Professor Thomas K. McCraw and other members of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Weaving Success in India
Photographs and advertisements from Nalli’s nearly nine decades in business. (Courtesy Lavanya Nalli) Photographs and advertisements from Nalli’s nearly nine decades in business. (Courtesy Lavanya Nalli) “Once upon a time,” Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti begins as he recounts... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
Fiorina Photo courtesy of Hewlett-Packard In the 1970s, after graduating from Stanford with a concentration in medieval history and philosophy, something happened to Carly Fiorina on her way to a successful legal career. “I hated law... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
early interest in drawing and sculpting in the sand was important," says Jenrette with a smile some sixty years later, reflecting on his remarkable career at the helm of DLJ and subsequently, as chairman of The Equitable, the insurance View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
encapsulates what I have learned about American business history during three decades of research and teaching the subject." Highlights from the conversation follow. How did you choose the seven men profiled in your book? First of all, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
by the number of personal papers — mostly diaries and family letters — contained in these business records. “These personal writings reveal the depth of the Historical Collections and underscore the variety of ways that the business manuscripts can be used to study the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
morning paper, a history lesson, or a conflict in the classroom," recalls Slifka. At HBS, he notes, General Georges F. Doriot's manufacturing course also had a powerful impact. "He taught us to be innovative, to be courageous, and to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
a long workweek it was and how extraordinarily controlling companies were in the early days before the labor movement." In subtle contrast, a striking 1933 portrait of a woman cotton warper at the Shelton Looms in Shelton, Connecticut, by... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
collapse, reveal how botched policy responses made a bad situation worse, and focus on lessons that the practice of finance must learn to avoid a repeat in the future. How to Be a Fierce Competitor: What Winning Companies and Great... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
with the briefest of utterances. But it wasn’t always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the Arabian desert. From his first... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s director of special collections. More recently, that focus... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details